Ἰταλία

See also: Ιταλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain.

According to the most widely accepted explanation, is an early borrowing from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of young cattle”) or a related Italic language with /w/ in the anlaut disappearing in Greek before the classical period, and later reanalyzed as Ῑ̓τᾰλός (Ītalós) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

In such case, derived from Proto-Italic *wetelos (“yearling, calf”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.ta.lí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.taˈli.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.taˈli.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.taˈli.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.taˈli.a/

Proper noun

Ῑ̓τᾰλῐ́ᾱ • (Ītalíā) f (genitive Ῑ̓τᾰλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

(Classical Ancient Greek) southernmost Italy, roughly corresponding to modern Calabria
Italy (an ancient region in Southern Europe, corresponding to modern Italy)

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Ῑ̓τᾰλῐώτης (Ītaliṓtēs)

Descendants

→ Albanian: Itali
→ German: Italien
Greek: Ιταλία (Italía)
Latin: Ītalia
- Catalan: Itàlia
- Corsican: Italia
- Emilian: Itâglia
- → English: Italy
- French: Italie
- Friulian: Italie
- Italian: Italia
  - → Arabic: إِيطَالِيَا‎ (ʔīṭāliyā)
  - → Indonesian: Italia
  - → Korean: 이탈리아 (itallia)
  - → Maltese: Italja
  - → Slavomolisano: Litalija
- Ligurian: Italia
- Lombard: Itàlia
- Neapolitan: Italia
- Occitan: Itàlia
- Piedmontese: Italia
- → Polish: Italia
- Romagnol: Itâglia
- Sardinian: Itàlia
- Sicilian: Italia, Itàlia, Talia, Tàlia
- Venetian: Itałia
→ Old Church Slavonic: Италиꙗ (Italija)
- → Old East Slavic: Италиꙗ (Italija)
  - Old Ruthenian: *Италиꙗ (*Italija), *Італіꙗ (*Italija)
    - Belarusian: Іта́лія (Itálija)
    - Ukrainian: Іта́лія (Itálija)
  - Russian: Ита́лия (Itálija), Ита́лія (Itálija)
    - → Kyrgyz: Италия (İtaliya)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Italija
→ Slovene: Italija

References

“Ἰταλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ἰταλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
G2482 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

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